I Can't Hold Back · Survivor

106 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28 and 53-94 -- 68.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 145 BPM
I CAN'T HOLD BACK · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 93 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-94.

CHORUS
PART C
BREAK
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Can't Hold Back?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is I Can't Hold Back hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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